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In four days, former longtime Windsor West MPP Sandra Pupatello could be Premier Pupatello, Ontario's first female premier - and head of a province with a shaky minority government, still recovering from one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression, facing a $11.9-billion deficit and in the middle of a seemingly intractable labour dispute with its teachers.

LONDON - The Vatican said Saturday it never would have given Jimmy Savile his papal knighthood had it known of allegations the British TV star was a child sex predator, but that it can't rescind the honour now that he has died.